Hi Dave, I am the coordinator of the (moribund|inactive) marketing team, with very little time available for SL. The past three years I've really only done PR.
The wiki is a rabbit warren... you can fall into it and never get out. The main website lacks visuals and like the other websites are not well connected from a navigation point of view. However, the main thing it is lacking is a pancake button with an easy installer... because we don't have one. I pushed to have a common navbar on all our sites some years ago, at the time developers didn't want to help code & deploy that. I can refer you to that work. I have acess to edit the main website, which I use only to update the press page when I issue a press release, an infrequent occurrence. I hack the HTML by hand, there is no backoffice publishing tool. I also pay for the press page softphone, which however I haven't checked in some time (messages are forwarded to Walter & I but I don't often connect to my SL gmail). The general infrastructure is supported by the systems team, to whom I tip my cap, it's often a thankless job. I also have post access to the facebook page with two others, Gary C Martin and Samson Goddy. I haven't posted myself, but I respond when there is a private message. Perhaps with the new Oversight Board members there can be new initiatives to work on these issues? Sean On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 12:20 PM, Dave Crossland <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi > > I am just joining the Sugar Labs community as a GSoC Mentor, and I also am > finding the wiki to have a lot of stale information, and the websites to be > quite sprawling and in need of some 'wiki gardening' and general > 'information architecture'. > > Who runs the existing web site infrastructure and who are the stakeholders > that authorise changes to prominent pages? > > > On 25 March 2016 at 04:46, Sean DALY <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Greetings Juan Carlos, >> >> I think it's clear that users of the several Sugar Labs websites would >> benefit from more integrated navigation. This problem was identified in >> 2009 when the current main SL site went up, at that time we tried to deploy >> a standardized menu bar across the SL websites but were unable to find >> anyone willing to do that work. >> >> We have also wanted a more visual main homepage and some work was done in >> the past in that regard, but we were unable to source release-signed images >> from the community and there was no budget for a professional photo shoot >> (stock photography would not be appropriate). >> >> Sean >> >> >> On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 10:52 PM, jcmurillot63 <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Hi marketing team, >>> >>> My name is Juan Carlos Murillo and I’m very interested on contributing >>> to Sugar Labs during Google Summer of Code 2016. Currently, I’m almost done >>> with my proposal, but in one of the last questions I’m being asked to ask >>> two members of the Sugar Labs community for his answer to the following >>> question: >>> >>> What will be the impact of redesigning the Sugar Labs websites (main >>> webpage, Wiki, Translation System, Planet, etc.) on the Sugar Labs >>> community? >>> >>> I would appreciate a lot your response. >>> >>> >>> Best regards, >>> >>> Juan Carlos Murillo >>> >>> >>> Enviado desde mi Samsung Mobile de Telcel >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Marketing mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/marketing >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Marketing mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/marketing >> >> > > > -- > Cheers > Dave > > _______________________________________________ > Marketing mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/marketing > >
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